Young Speech Researchers Meetings

UK Speech organises one-day meetings, workshops and courses for researchers working in speech science & technology and allied areas.

Upcoming Meeting

We hope the next Young Researchers meeting will take place at Edinburgh University soon. Details to follow!

Previous Meetings

16 July 2008 - University of Surrey in Guilford

A really interesting day put on by the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing at Surrey.

Abstracts of the papers.

Here are some pictures taken on the day:

• Medha Pandit and Tariq Jan enjoy the calm before the storm
• Only Roger Moore doesn't have his back to the camera
• Korin Richmond and Chandra Raut setting up for their talks
• Hongwei Hu explaining his poster to Gregor Hofer

12 April 2007 - University College London

Another great day with 60 people coming to look around 22 posters and listen to 4 talks. We also had an art installation called "The Listening Room" by the artist Alexa Wright.

Abstracts of papers.

14 April 2005 - University College London

An interesting and successful meeting was held at which 6 talks and 22 posters were presented.

Here are some pictures taken on the day:

• Piers Messum points out some things during his talk.
• A busy poster session with lots of interested people.
• Only Philip Jackson doesn't have his back to the camera

22 April 2004 - University College London

The meeting this year focussed on "What industry wants from speech research" and there were keynote talks from industrialists working in the speech processing industry.

Abstracts of Papers

24 April 2003 - One Day Meeting for Young Speech Researchers

This meeting was an opportunity for graduate students and new researchers from industry and universities to discuss their work in progress with speech scientists and technologists from across UK industry. The conference had 6 oral presentations and 22 posters from many aspects of speech research, analysis and processing including theoretical work and speech technology.

Abstracts of Papers

Here are some pictures taken at one of the poster sessions in 2003:

• Two poster givers enthuse their audience ...
• A lot of effort went into some poster designs ...
• You are never sure who might ask an awkward question ...
• Blue and yellow spectrograms always brighten up a poster ...